Discover more about the egg-laying monotremes of Oceania and the ancient traits they still carry.

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Astronomers sweeping through the archive of NASA's James Webb Telescope found a group of galaxies with an unknown combination ...

Four female platypuses were the first group to be introduced to the park, University of New South Wales scientists said. Richard Freeman UNSW Australia’s Royal National Park was once brimming with ...

Platypuses are back at Australia’s oldest national park after disappearing from it roughly 50 years ago. On Friday, wildlife officials released four females inside Royal National Park, located south ...

A Tasmanian man befriends a platypus while protecting the species from urban development. Witness the story of Pete Walsh, a Tasmanian man who befriends a platypus he names Zoom. With the help of ...

Scientists surveying turtles saw a leucistic white platypus, the first ever recorded, in a river of New South Wales, videos show. Photo from Streeting, Daugherty, Burrows, Bower, Watson, Daugherty and ...